Wednesday, February 9, 2005
Glenn is all over the New York Times' columnist for his myopic view (It's all Bush's fault!) of the situation.
HipperCritical: Kristof Backtrack
...Like you, I hope President Bush chooses to take this immensely difficult challenge head on. But you have to give credit to him if he actually does take it on. And you also have to understand that it will only get done (this time around) with much more pressure from the likes of you (a serious, popular, liberal journalist with a wide audience) on the United Nations, and on the rest of our international allies too. I went back and read just about all of your coverage of the Sudan genocide, and the pressure you apply on anyone else but the Bush administraton is just about nil. But the pressure points are everywhere. Everyone will have to deal with the aftermath and the wondering..Did we let this go on for way too long again?...
I'm telling ya, it's some sort of virus that comes over so many people who almost get it right, but somehow get a fever that must infect the air-supply over at the New York Times building and wrecks their mental-processes at just the moment they begin to put finger to keyboard to start their articles.